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Inclusive growth in South Africa? : inequality dynamics and the role of trade openness vs tax policies

Bargain, Olivier; Benhura, Miracle; Jara, H. Xavier; … - 2026

Market forces, and notably the role of trade openness, contribute to shaping inequality in South Africa and may limit the inclusiveness of its growth path. Recently, policy reforms may have helped to mitigate these effects. To better understand these developments, we analyse trends in post-tax...

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Mapping mobility and opportunity : how place, gender, and ethnicity shape economic outcomes in Ecuador

Brunori, Paolo; Pozo, Diego del; Jara, H. Xavier; … - 2026

Integrating administrative data from the civil registry, social security, and national censuses, we provide novel evidence on intergenerational income mobility and equality of opportunity among 514,890 formal workers in Ecuador. Our results show substantial intergenerational mobility (rank-rank...

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Climate policy as development policy : leveraging carbon revenues for social protection in low- and middle-income countries

Gasior, Katrin; Wright, Gemma; Jara, H. Xavier; … - 2026

Carbon pricing is widely recognized as a key tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, if implemented without compensatory measures, it can increase poverty and inequality. The aim of this paper is to examine the role of carbon pricing in generating fiscal space for expanding social...

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Fuelling the green transition : the direct and indirect effects of the subsidy reforms in the Andean region

Jara, H. Xavier; Rattenhuber, Pia; Rodriguez, David; … - 2026

The aim of this paper is to analyse the distributional effects of fuel subsidy reforms in four countries of the Andean region: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The analysis combines tax-benefit microsimulation techniques with input-output analysis to estimate the direct and indirect...

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The emergence of tax-benefit microsimulation models in the Global South : the experience of SAMOD, SOUTHMOD, and EUROMOD-based models for Latin America

Jara, H. Xavier; Gasior, Katrin; Lastunen, Jesse; … - 2026

This paper examines the experience of building and using tax-benefit microsimulation models for countries in the Global South in EUROMOD. The study focuses mainly on three key initiatives: the pioneering SAMOD model, the SOUTHMOD project, and EUROMOD-based models for Latin America. The paper...

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Microsimulation of tax-benefit systems in the Global South : a comparative assessment

Lastunen, Jesse; Mahieu, Antoine de; Gasior, Katrin; … - 2024

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in the Global South. Using national survey data and tax-benefit microsimulation models from the SOUTHMOD project, we provide a cross-country perspective on the redistributive...

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Top earners and earnings inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Ecuadorian administrative data

Bargain, Olivier; Carrillo-Maldonado, Paul; Jara, H. Xavier - 2023

This paper aims to assess the extent to which top earners in Ecuador were affected by the COVID-19 crisis compared to other segments of the population. Our analysis uses administrative data for individuals affiliated to social security between January 2019 and December 2021. We identify the top...

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The role of tax-benefit systems in protecting household incomes in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodriguez, David; Jara, H. Xavier; Dondo, Mariana; … - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected household incomes around the world. In developed economies, pre-pandemic tax-benefit policies and emergency transfers mitigated to a large extent the negative income shock. However, less is known about the effect of government intervention on household...

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Female labour supply and informal employment in Ecuador

Jara, H. Xavier; Rattenhuber, Pia - 2022

Low- and middle-income countries face a trade-off between raising tax revenue to strengthen social protection and creating incentives for the population to enter formal employment. However, empirical evidence on labour supply elasticities in the presence of informal employment remains scarce....

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The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Lastunen, Jesse; Rattenhuber, Pia; Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; … - 2021

This paper analyses the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related tax-benefit measures in 2020 in a cross-country comparative perspective for five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We first estimate the impact of the crisis on disposable...

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